Content Focus: Focusing on character development, and visualizing while reading a text.

Language Focus: Language focuses are listening and reading

Vocabulary Focus: symbolism – a literary device in which a writer uses one thing—usually a physical object or phenomenon—to represent something more abstract.

Standards:

• Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
• Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

 

Arts Integration: The Art of Symbolism using visual art.

Lesson Objectives:

• Learning Objective: I am learning how to use symbolism to represent character traits
• Success Criteria: I know I am successful when I can take what take a symbol and interpret into my project with the use of words or phrases.

 

Activities: 

• Some inquiry for the understanding of symbolism.
• An activity to get the group thinking and relating objects in a different light. Have some objects and ask the group/class what it makes them think of.
• Depending on time, a self representation of themselves using symbolism (drawing pictures, using color, or phrases).
• While reading a text have students take notes on a character so they can use symbolism using visual art /using symbolism (drawing pictures, using color, or phrases) to develop understanding of a character in a text.

 

Engagement/Introduction: Let think about the color red, and think that it represents not the color red itself but something beyond it: for example, love. The color red can also represent blood. It can also mean stop ­— when you approach a traffic light. Another thing can be anger, seeing red.

Assessment Procedure:

• Students are assessed on their reading and listening skills. Being able to identify a character, take notes on them, and produce a piece of art to represent a character from a text.
• I used a piece of construction sized paper for student assignments where there was plenty of room for detail and note taking on the back.

 

Materials: 4×6 blank index cards, pencils, colored pencils, rulers

Supporting Documents: Presentation

Contact: Brett Thyssen (thyssenbrett@aasd.k12.wi.us)